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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

and so little time! I have all these projects and photos to scrap and all these ideas in my head that I just can't wait to get out. Sure, work and family keep me busy but I always reserve time every night to sit down at my scrappin' desk. Now that I have it all organized I'm itching to whip up all these projects. The problem is time because I need more than 24 hours in a day but since I can't change that I have to figure out how to whittle down my project list. I seem to do better when I have a deadline and someone else is counting on me so I'm thinking about venturing out and submitting for another Design Team (if they'll have me). I am specifically going to search out one that offers a monthly kit or goodies to play with. I am thoroughly enjoying using up the hundreds of papers and embellies I have in my stash but I just ordered a kit from Noel Mignon (see kit below) and it was like Christmas when I opened it. I loved the feeling of uncertainty and all the oohs and ahhs I was saying. I would love to have that every month! So I guess I'm off to find a new DT call. And tonight I'll be finishing up some layouts I have in progress because I am dying to play with this new kit.

Monday, April 19, 2010

have I been up to? I haven't posted in over a month but that doesn't mean I haven't been scrappin'. Let's see, since my last post I headed to the West Coast for a business trip, then to the East Coast for a mini vacation to Disney World, I went on a scrapbooking weekend getawat, then I've dealt with the added stress of trying to sell our house, launch 3 huge projects at work and a very sick grandma and last but NEVER, ever least is quality time with my family. So now that I've explained my posting absence, here's a couple of projects I've been working on. I have more that I will post soon (once I take pictures of them).

Nuts About Sketches - Week 105 Sketch & Layout

The picture does not do this layout justice. I handstamped the butterflies to look like the one painted on Rheagan's face. First I stamped it in Bubblegum Pink, then I inked the outer edge of the stamp in Amethyst Purple and then I went back and added White Daisy in to the middle. After that was dry I added bling on the body of the butterflies to represent the glitter on the butterflies. Lastly, I hand drew and hand embroidered the antennaes and flying path. I am confident that I will go back and sew along the edges of the tilted paper and when I do I will post the results.

Sweet Cheeks

This is based on a PageMaps sketch from January 2010. This was a random "moment" photo I took of Daddy & Reese. I ripped the edges of the black paper. I handcut the felt strip (as you can tell). I made a small flower that I used as a guide to cut out each of the flowers, by hand. I then needed to find a frame for the bottom photo. Nothing I found fit or looked right so what did I do? If you read one of my posts below, then you should know what I did ... I made one myself. I drew the frame, cut it, stamped it, inked it and popped it up above the photo. I really like how this one turned out.

As I said above, I have a couple more layouts to post so check back later this week. And come back again next Monday to see the next Nuts About Sketches sketch. Here's a teaser for it.

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